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GAS BURNER. .N (j.'35 8,560. i Patent-9d Mar. 1, 1887.

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omen STATES PATENT @rrice.

ANDREW l LTPS'EY, Uh WEST liUBOKEN, NEW J ERSEY. I

GAS-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,560, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed March 31, 1886. Serial No. 197,285. (No model.

To aZZ w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, 1\NDREW B. Lirsnx, of lVcst lloboken, county of Hudson, State of N cw Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gas-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

lily improvement consists in the combination of two or more obliquely-arranged gasburner tips having gas -escape orifices arranged obliquely to their axes, and material capable of resisting heat arranged intermediate of the position occupied by flames issuing from the bru'ner-tips. The gas will escape in such manner that when ignited the llames will bend transversely toward each other, so as to meet or nearly meet at the edges. The llames will heat the intermediate air, and by rarel'ying it cause it to ascend. The adjacent atmosphere will How to take the place of the air which ascended alter rarefaetipn, and. thus the bending of the flames emanating from the burner-tips will be increased, and a circle or approxiuml'e circle of light will result.

In the aceoni ianylng drawings, Figure l is a side view of a gas fixture embodying my improvement and adapted to be fastened to the upturned or upwardlycxtending end of a gassupply pipe. Fig. 2 is a side view of another gas-fixture. embodying'my improvement, but adapted for attachment to the lower end of a gas-suppl y pipe. Fig. of a fixture, illustruling the manner in which llames emanating fronr the gas-burner tips will be drawn around into circular form.

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sponding parts in all the figures.

In Fig. 1, A designates a body-piece adapted to be attached at the lower end to theupturned end of or upwardly-extending end of a gas supply pipe, 13. This body-piecc A may be secured to the gas-supply pipe B by screw threads.

U designates gas-burner tips, of which there may be any suitable number, although I have shown but two, inserted in a body-piece, A. They are represented as extending in reverse directions obliquely from the body-pieee and 3 is a top view of part as having rounded ends provided with slots 0, which are arranged -to extend approximately upward and obliquely to the axes of the tips. These tips may befastened in place by screwthreads. They of course communicate with the interior ofthe body-pieee.

Above the body-piece, Fig. 1, is a piece of material, 1), adapted to withstand the elfects of heat produced by flames er'nanating from the gas-burner tips. It may be made of any suit: able niatei-ial-as, for instance, of metal or percelain or like refractory material. It is represented as circular in form, and as flaring slightly from the lower end toward the upper end. It'is shown as surrounding a rod, D, that is screwed into the body-piece, and has attached to its upper end a ring, R, whereby a Shade, S, is supported. Owing to the arrangement of the gaseseape orifices obliquely to the. axes of the burner-tips the gas escaping from them is when ignited caused to bend laterally, so that the sides of the flames will converge. The flames will be so close to the piece D asto heat thelatter very-materially. Airin the immediate vicinity of the piece D will be rap-. idly heated and rarefied, so as to be caused to ascend. The air outside the flameshas eitend' eney to-ruslrinto the vacuum produced byy the rarefaction of air around the piece D." Owing to this thetendency of the flames to bend around at.their side edges toward each dlher is augmented, and aeircle or approximate circle of light is formed. A very desirable light is the result, as illumination'may be had from it in all directions. i

In Fig.2 I'have shown' that the llody-piec e A may be closed at the lower end arid secured to the downwardly-turned or downwardly" extending end of agas-supply pipe. Tl1e.gassupply pipe in this instance has the piece-D. fitted to it. omitted, the rod D or the gas-supply pipe, (shown in Fig. 2,) as

the case might he. would constitute material capable of resisting the heat 01" flames issuing from the burner-tips. 1

In this example of my improvement an additional benefit will resultnamely, the heating of the gas as it descends through Of eourse,if, the piece D were,

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pipe B {.e the body-piece A. A ring, 12, supporting a shade, S, is SCCllXCLltO tllB gas-sun ply pipe in this example of my invention.

\Vhai; I claim as my invention, and desire 5 to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of Lwfl 01' more obliquelyari'anged gas-burner lips having; gas-escape orifices arranged Oblimlel) to then-axes, and

nmlm'izil mpzible of resisting heat; arranged intermediate 0f the positions whichiwill be IO occupied by flames emanating from the gasblllllLl' tips, substantially as specified.

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